Online communities & social media

Online communities & social media

Our social media channels are used by more than 26,000 people to keep up-to-date on issues like school closures or road conditions. Many also use social media to find out about events and the latest council news as well as job vacancies.

An explanation of the social media channels we use:

Twitter

Twitter is a free micro-blogging and social media service that allows users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters. We 'tweet' important alerts, public consultations, news headlines and local events.

Facebook

Facebook is a free social networking website. Users can join networks organised by city, workplace, school and region to connect and interact with people. We use Facebook to raise awareness of campaigns and consultations.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is an online professional network which links you with colleagues past and present. Users can post their CVs online and network with individuals and organisations to find out about job opportunities.

RSS news and alerts

RSS feeds let you stay up to date with our news, events, school closure, jobs and more.
Simply subscribe to any of our feeds below and you will be automatically updated within minutes of information being added to our system.

Instagram

Instagram is an online photo and video sharing social network that is mainly based on mobile devices. It takes photos and videos and adds them to photo maps, organised by ‘hashtags’. We use the service to display pictures and videos from the county.

Be safe online

The presence of any advertisement on online communities is not an endorsement of the authenticity or quality of the goods, services or website and Northumberland County Council will not be held responsible for any claims arising in that respect.

Social media rules & guidelines

Most online communities have their own rules and guidelines, which we will always follow. We reserve the right to remove any contributions that break the rules or guidelines of the relevant community. We ask that you:

Social media & libel

Please take care not to make libellous statements. In law this means a statement that lowers the reputation of a person or organisation in the eyes of a reasonable person. By publishing such a statement, we can both get into serious trouble. We will therefore take down any statement that could be deemed to be libellous.

Purdah

In the six-week run up to an election - local, general or European - councils have to be careful not to do or say anything that could be seen to support any political party or candidate. The period is known as purdah. We will continue to publish important service announcements using social media, but may have to remove responses if they are overtly party political.

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